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- Is the hardest part of work not the actual job, but everything around it — the small talk, the office dynamics, the unwritten rules, the masking — that you’re so drained after work there’s little energy or time left for anything else?
- Do you find yourself cycling through jobs or careers — starting strong, burning out, starting over — and wondering if there is any kind of work that won’t eventually cost you everything?
- Do you find it harder and harder to keep pouring your limited energy into companies and systems that are actively making things worse — but the idea of finding something that actually fits feel either impossible, or like a luxury you can’t afford?
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